“Webtech” collection
May 30, 2007
Scam/Virus Alert – emails from IRS with Subject “Complaint Case Number…”
Scam, Virus, Phishing alert! Looks like there is a variant of the Better Business Bureau scam is circulating now but seemingly from the Internal Revenue Service, and I was a recipient of one of the emails. It came in with a title of: "Complaint Case Number ###### against User Name" from, supposedly "[email protected]". The body itself looked somewhat legit and…
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May 26, 2007
reCaptcha – post comments and help digitize old text
I'm sure that a lot of people have heard about Captcha...if you have downloaded files from RapidShare or tried to post comments on a blog (like mine) or register for a new site service or something like that, you have probably come across Captcha. Captcha stands for Completely Automated Turing Test To Tell Computers and Humans Apart. It is design…
Read more →May 25, 2007
Pheedo to Feedburner Synergy, at last!
I'm not sure what happened but after a few phone calls with the Director of Publisher Relations at Pheedo (thanks Jeff), deleting and recreating feeds and possible DNS issues at my hosting provider, it seems that my feeds are now working again, and feeding each other. To refresh on the concept, unfortunately I was unable to "qualify" yet for Feedburner…
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Working with Pheedo, Feedburner and Wordpress
I have been playing around with Feedburner, Pheedo and my blog's feeds and somewhere in the process, something got confused (or maybe I did, who knows). My old feed started showing rows and rows of the "email this * save to del.icio.us * add to del.icio.us..." etc. (See the image below) My intention was to see how I could get…
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May 16, 2007
WordPress updates code to 2.2…and I follow
First post under WordPress 2.2. Did some rookie moves when I did the upgrade (thought I remember what I needed to do) and forgot to push the wp-includes directory. Here are highlights of what changed (aside from the 200+ bug fixes/feature upgrades). Widgets - you can get rid of your Sidebar Widgets plug-in by Automattic, Inc., it's now included. Widgets…
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HTD Roundup: Snippets of Tech that I have been playing with
It's been a while since my last post so I figured I would do yet another laundry list of things that I have been doing and technology I have been reviewing: Updated my Blog Theme to Redoable 1.2 - still a work in progress as there are some issues preventing me from showing what I had previously MAMP 1.6 -…
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Find your path through Wikipedia using Pathway
Okay Mac/Wikipedia users, this one is for you. Have you ever found yourself lost navigating through the incredible amount of links and cross links within Wikipedia? It's truly hard to use the back button to go back and forth throughout Wikipedia when your exploration is truly multi-layered. You need a breadcrumb trail and a way to link all of the…
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February 28, 2007
New Theme for Netvibes – Coriander
The great Web2.0 company, NetVibes, that I have been using for some time now as my homepage for ALL of my computers has released a really great new theme called Coriander. It brings the look & feel to a more Web2.0 feel (e.g., rounded corners & "shiny colors") but also adds some nice functionality like the ability to resize your…
Read more →February 27, 2007
New way to post…via Instant Messenger
I just found a great new way to post to my blog, via a service called IMified. This is my first post using this service. I will probably research it some more and then write a bit more information about how to use this service. This is handy if you are on the road or on a cell phone. More…
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First Post using Microsoft Word 2007 “Blogger†option
So it looks like Microsoft got with the times with Word 2007 and incorporated blogging in with their new offering. So, I'm testing out the posting first and then I will write some more details around this. Looks promising. More later! Here is an image:
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January 25, 2007
Blog updated to WordPress 2.1
You are now viewing my site on WP 2.1. It was a relatively painless upgrade (following the instructions on WordPress.org)...but I use the term "relatively" very loosly. When I first tried to run the upgrade script, I got an error (that I had seen before): Warning: main(/blahblahblah/wp-content/ advanced-cache.php) [function.main]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /blahblahbla/wp-settings.php…
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New WordPress release (version 2.1) and other stuff
Once again, it's been a while since I posted. I've been deep in "geek-dom" mainly related to Cell Phone. My wife's old Blackberry (7100t) died so I got a Blackberry 8700c off of eBay and she is now up and running on that! It's a great device actually. My biggest issues was a little trick that I forgot to do…
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